This pattern shows something strange in the results of Omega. Looking at the step of array accesses it seems like Omega has just no mechanism to handle -1 evolutions i.e. 0ffffffff in unsigned with modulo arithmetics. This occurs in gcc/gcc/real.c during bootstrap on amd64-linux.
Dist vectors from the first dependence analyzer: 1 1 Omega dist vectors are not the same: -1 0 Data dependence relation is: (Data Dep: access_fn_A: {1, +, 4294967295}_5 access_fn_B: {2, +, 4294967295}_5 (subscript iterations_that_access_an_element_twice_in_A: {0, +, 1}_1 last_conflict: 1 iterations_that_access_an_element_twice_in_B: {1, +, 1}_1 last_conflict: 1 (Subscript distance: 1 ) ) distance_vect: -1 0 direction_vect: - = ) -- Summary: [data deps] Overflow problem in Omega Product: gcc Version: 4.1.0 Status: UNCONFIRMED Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: middle-end AssignedTo: unassigned at gcc dot gnu dot org ReportedBy: sebastian dot pop at cri dot ensmp dot fr CC: gcc-bugs at gcc dot gnu dot org http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=23413